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Name of organization: |
Academic Achievers/S&L Consultants |
Primary location: |
904 East 8th Street |
Contact information: |
Phone: 877-661-7901 or 646-319-1890 |
LEAs where service will be provided: |
New York
City Board of Education |
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Years provider has delivered service: |
6 years |
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Evidence that services have been effective: |
Academic Achievers/S&L Consultants has been providing educational services in entrepreneurship, financial literacy and tutoring for over 6 years. |
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Title of the instructional program, curriculum series to be used (if appropriate): |
Great Source's
Lessons in Literacy (K-5 Reading/English Language Arts), Holt's
Elements of Literature (6-8 Reading/ELA), Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt's Mathletics (K-5 Math), and Brittanica's Mathematics
in Context (6-8 Math) Great Sources, ACCESS English (9-12 Reading/English Language Arts), Great Source, ACCESS Math (9-12 Math) |
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Grade level(s) the provider will serve: |
Kindergarten through 12th grade |
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Content area(s) provider will serve: |
Reading/English Language Arts and Mathematics |
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Number of sessions provided per week, if applicable: |
Two sessions per week |
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Average length of each service session (minutes/hours): |
75 minutes (sessions are 60 minutes or 90 minutes) |
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Duration of the available service period (e.g. September 1 – June 30; September 1 – August 31; weekends only; summer school only; specific number of weeks or hours, other, etc;): |
1 - August 31 |
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Type of instruction: |
Tutor-guided small group and one-on-one instruction using a system of individual grade level texts, workbooks, pre- and post-tests, literature, CD-ROMs, videodisk workbooks, and supplemental materials. PC-based instruction is used as a supplement for students with disabilities and limited English proficiency students. Instruction is systematic and direct; tutors explain the lesson, students practice the lesson with the tutor's assistance and continue to practice until they have mastered the lesson material. |
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Description of methods and strategies for serving eligible students with disabilities: |
AA/S&L supports students with disabilities with highly qualified special education teachers/tutors, accurate assessment of the students' skills and abilities, and appropriate adaptation of teaching techniques, including one-on-one tutoring, peer tutoring, tutor-guided PC-based instruction, and small group collaborative work. Testing methods will include reading questions orally and/or allowing additional time to complete the test. Lessons will be adjusted based on the student's disability. Teaching methods emphasize direct, explicit instruction in learning strategies and problem-solving. Teachers motivate students by developing awareness of their own achievements. AA/S&L has extensive experience working with students with ADD and other learning disabilities. |
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Description of methods and strategies for serving eligible students with limited English proficiency: |
AA/S&L has bi-lingual staff in Spanish/English and will recruit bi-lingual teachers in other languages as needed. LEP students' skills and knowledge gaps are tested and an individual student learning plan and timetable is created for each student. The pace of LEP instruction is a little slower, but covers the same material as mainstream classes with an emphasis on verbal communication, audio content, guided computer instruction, language and learning games, visual cues and manipulatives to actively engage students. |
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Qualifications of the service provider(s)/instructor(s): |
AA/S&L's policy is to recruit and hire certified teachers and prefers to hire teachers with 5 years experience who have been recommended by a superintendent or principal. Our present staff is 80 percent certified teachers. When teachers are unavailable, AA/S&L hires students majoring in education with a minimum of two years of college instruction. In NY state, all site supervisors will be NY certified teachers, preferably working in the school where they teach. AA/S&L staff members have experience in Curriculum Design, Early Childhood Education, Professional Development, Cultural Diversity, Special Education and Educational Technology. All have worked extensively with economically disadvantaged students. |
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Reports to parents, teachers, and LEA (Content, frequency, method of delivery): |
Teachers/tutors speak with parents/guardians on a weekly basis and send out bi-weekly progress reports. Reports are sent to parents /guardians by U.S. mail or other preferred method, and to teachers and the LEA via email. The progress report contains assessment results and information about attitude, behavior and attendance. Bi-lingual staff will provide translated reports for parents/guardians as needed. |
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Will transportation to the service location be provided at no charge if requested? (Note: LEAs are not required to provide or pay for transportation) |
AA/S&L will provide tutoring on school sites and at partnering organizations after school and on Saturday's. We will not provide transportation for students. However, we are flexible in days and times tutoring can take place. AA/S&L will partner with school districts regarding facility fees and tutoring days. |
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Additional relevant information: |
AA/S&L is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will seek out individuals with diverse backgrounds. AA/S&L shall never discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religious belief, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental handicap, or veteran status in recruitment, selection, training, promotion termination or any other personnel action. |


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Public safety worker Colleen O'Neal of Lubbock, Texas, is suing Continental Airlines, claiming that a turbulent flight left her too scared to ever fly again. The plane "fell repeatedly," the lawsuit alleges, "and felt as if it had lost power and was falling out of the sky." O'Neal had hoped to get a job with FEMA, but claims that her new fear of air travel now makes that impossible. It's a bit cheeky to demand "lost wages for a job she never had," observes Brian Moylan at Gawker.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Wednesday called on the Justice Department to conduct a full "pattern and practice" review of the city's police department to probe whether officers routinely violate citizens' civil rights.
"At the end of this process, I will hold those accountable if changes are not made," Rawlings-Blake said, adding that the department would have body cameras on officers "before the year ends."
The announcement came one day after new Attorney General Loretta Lynch visited Baltimore. The DOJ was already investigating the death of Freddie Gray, the unarmed black man who died in police custody and whose death sparked widespread protests that at times turned violent. Jon Terbush
Two surveillance planes were flown over Baltimore last weekend, and the ACLU isn't happy about it.
The Washington Post reports that the planes used infrared technology to track movement, and they were aided by the FBI, according to anonymous officials. Now, the ACLU is demanding information about the flights' legal authority, since the technology often adds "the movements of people under no suspicion of criminal activity into a government dragnet," according to the Post.
"A lot of these technologies sweep very, very broadly, and, at a minimum, the public should have a right to know what's going on," Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst at the ACLU, told the Post.
Officials told the Post that the ACLU will file information requests about the planes with the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the FAA on Wednesday. The FBI has not commented on the flights. Meghan DeMaria
California police have arrested three people claiming to represent a modern incarnation of the Knights Templar, one of whom, Brandon Kiel, works alongside state Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris.
So how does one get caught impersonating a pseudo-biblical police force?
The three suspects — Kiel, David Henry, and Tonette Hayes — allegedly sent letters to police departments around southern California identifying themselves as the Masonic Fraternal Police Department. They even had a real website for the fictional group claiming jurisdiction in 33 states "including Mexico City" and differentiating the MFPD from other police departments with the simple explanation, "We were here first!"
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Yet when the real police met with the fake police, the latter couldn't offer coherent information about their organization, leading the former to conclude it "was not a legitimate police agency," according to a statement from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department. Subsequent raids turned up weapons, badges, and uniforms for the phony cops.
"I always see them with their uniforms, so I thought they were part of any department," a neighbor for one of the suspects told the local CBS affiliate. "I didn't know it was a fake one." Jon Terbush
Jeb Bush says the strife in Baltimore proves the war on poverty "failed" to expand opportunity in America's most disadvantaged communities. In a Chicago Tribune op-ed published Wednesday, the presumptive 2016 candidate writes that Democrats are wrongly responding to the unrest with calls to increase government spending and reform the criminal justice system.
Trouble is, from the War on Poverty to the persistence of liberal big city mayors, the same government programs have been in place for over a half-century — and they have failed. We have spent trillions of dollars in the War on Poverty, and poverty not only persists, it is as intractable as ever. This represents a broken promise. And it feeds the anger of Baltimore. [Chicago Tribune]
More effective solutions to Baltimore's underlying ills, Bush adds, should involve overhauling the education system to make it more accountable, and "acknowledg[ing] that an effective anti-poverty program is a strong family, led by two parents."
"Our goal should be to build up families," Bush writes.
Last week, Bush offered similar remarks about the potential for education reform to break "dependency" on failed big government policies. Jon Terbush
In a moving Facebook post, Sheryl Sandberg pays tribute to her late husband, SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg, who died from head injuries after collapsing on a treadmill.
Sandberg describes meeting Goldberg when she moved to Los Angeles. "He showed me the internet for the first time," Sandberg writes. She adds that while the couple "did not get nearly enough time together," she is incredibly grateful for the time they shared:
We had 11 truly joyful years of the deepest love, happiest marriage, and truest partnership that I could imagine... He gave me the experience of being deeply understood, truly supported and completely and utterly loved — and I will carry that with me always. Most importantly, he gave me the two most amazing children in the world.
Dave was my rock. When I got upset, he stayed calm. When I was worried, he said it would be ok. When I wasn't sure what to do, he figured it out. He was completely dedicated to his children in every way — and their strength these past few days is the best sign I could have that Dave is still here with us in spirit. [Facebook]
Sandberg concludes that while the days following Goldberg's death have been "the darkest and saddest moments" of her life, "11 years of being Dave Goldberg's wife, and 10 years of being a parent with him is perhaps more luck and more happiness than I could have ever imagined."
Read Sandberg's full post over at Facebook. Meghan DeMaria
Talk about totally failing to get a vote of confidence. Garden State residents, who have voted Democratic in the last six presidential elections, would rather see Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, or Scott Walker in the White House over their own Governor Christie, according to a new poll from Monmouth University.
In fact, only 1 in 4 residents say Christie has a decent shot at winning the GOP nomination in 2016.
Why all the ill will? It's likely that New Jerseyans feel their concerns have been overshadowed by Christie's Oval-Office-shaped aspirations. And, of course, the Bridgegate scandal hasn't helped shift souring attitudes. But when it comes down to it, a majority — 67 percent — of voters say Christie just doesn't have the right temperament to lead the country.
"The message from New Jersey voters seems to be as simple as ABC — anybody but Christie," said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute. Lauren Hansen
If the 15 to 30 minutes you wait for food delivery feels like an eternity, Israeli company White Innovation may have the solution to your impatience, Reuters reports.
Meet the Genie, described by its creators as a real-life "replicator" — the popular Star Trek machine that could create meals on command. The Genie operates via a mobile app, on which its user can cue up one of a variety of snacks, meals, or desserts. Pop the corresponding pod into the coffee-maker-size device, and 30 seconds later, breakfast/lunch/dinner is served. The pods hold freeze-dried, all-natural ingredients that stay good for one to two years, giving the Genie's creators hope that in addition to a fun fad for gastronomes, the device could eventually prove useful for troop deployments or in developing countries.
Watch a video of the machine in action, over at Reuters. Sarah Eberspacher

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I FINALLY got one online, and it cost a fortune to ship to Alaska. I thought is would be worth it... but upon reading the instructions, it says to cook your brown rice for 45-50 minutes in the pc. It says to reheat rice you cook it under pressure for 10-15 minutes. What the heck? I have a pc to cook things fast! When I cook rice without an insert it's done in, what 10 minutes? So what's the deal here? Does anyone here actually have some experience with these things?


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Do you know of any FPS where you have companion bot that can kill/distract enemies, create a force shield, allow you to rappel and climb almost any surface and hack computers/alarm systems?
That's pretty different, Killzone is also distinguished by it's heavy realistic movement. Looks great. plays great.
I would like you to name 1 "innovative" FPS that you have played and what makes it "innovative."
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Looks amazing but they went alittle overboard with that flare lighting damn
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Oooh I've got this one: DUST 514
First real console beta
FPS game set within and linked to universe of a space MMO
Game works with an economy which will eventually be player driven
Unrivaled customization of infantry and vehicle set ups
Most indepth training skillset etc etc
Seriously, if you want something truly different then D514 is the way to go. Combined with EVE it is going to be the biggest and deepest war simulator on any platform anywhere.
All the next-gen shooters look pretty and will have new gameplay mechanics like rapelling and using this bot to do things but it's not real innovation in my eyes. I saw innovation in Iceland this January when I saw a guy playing DUST on console ask his colleague on PC to send down a tactical strike to the place the dude painted on his map. Asynchronous cross-genre, cross-platform badassery ensued as the PC dude bombarded a console battlefield in real time. Since then all the new features and "innovations" these mainstream shooters bring don't impress me at all...and this is just the beginning of a game that is 1 year into its 10 year development plan.
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Im not quite sure you can compare a regular FPS to a FPSMMO lol
And is any of that even in the released game yet?
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On the vegetation it probably got toned down to get it running super silky sixty frames per second! Give me that over some shrubs everyday of the week!
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While DUST is termed MMO because it is set in the digital universe of EVE, there is little in the game other than the starmaps to give you this impression at this point. You log into DUST, go to the matchmaker and jump into battle...at this level D514 is just like any other shooter so I think it's a fair comparison...but the point was innovation in an FPS game.
All of what I said is very foundational stuff that exists already. The economy is probably the biggest game-play mechanic innovation. No other game offers that and while it's a jarring concept for some, after awhile it just makes total sense and now these modern shooters with their magically appearing vehicles and infinite battlefield assets just feels superficial to me. Blowing up a tank in DUST is way more satisfying than the countless abrams I blew up with my BF3 car bomb antics simply because I knew I had just cost that guy over 1 million ISK.
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I've never cared for EVE/Dust but what you said is what I love about the universe. Loss is real.
I never get tired of reading about the sort of things that happen in EVE when you hear of Corp losing sometimes thousands of pounds worth of in game currency
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Killzone with vibrancy and colour, it's a sight to behold - can't wait!
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Yeah there are some epic stories out there. It does add a different feel to the game that I haven't felt elsewhere. It's a kind of urgency because you know that when you die it costs you. At the end of BF3 I was like, oh I died 5 times. At the end of DUST 514 I'm like, $#@!, I died 8 times and lost half a million ISK--but as I said before, when you kill a guy in an expensive suit, or better yet, gear bought with real money, you can't beat it.
But I won't take the thread more OT with this lol. KZ:SF and many of the other FPS games out there look amazing and I'm sure they will be a lot of fun, but I don't see a lot of innovation...that was my point. It#s crazy to think that this is just a launch title as well.
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rappel and climbing or creating a shield isn't innovation.many fps games have hit a point where gameplay has become pretty much stagnant, and killzone 4 is no exception. killzone 4 looks similar gameplay wise to killzone 2/3 with a few minor tweaks and the same heavy character movement that accompanies killzone games. Im not seeing anything special or next gen on the gameplay side. I'd say quake was the first game that defined innovation in shooters.
Graphically yeah it is looking pretty, and the best that ps4 is offering at launch , but that is about it.Last edited by rene2kx; 10-14-2013 at 17:19.
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Hopefully I will have enough to get this and Battlefield 4.
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I agree that the concept/possibilities of DUST are mind boggling.
However, the meta-game elements all depend upon the EVE online universe, without it, it would feel like a pretty generic shooter. If the game is judged as an FPS alone, it's not the best in terms of innovative gameplay. I hope there is an improved PS4 version. BTW I tried to get into eve, but damn it's hard - everyone else is so much more powerful, It costs too much to even compete - I enjoy reading the stories though. Also, I don't have a $#@!ing clue what I'm doing there.
It also kills and distracts enemies and hacks alarms to allow better stealth play etc. It's quite integral to the gameplay and It's a major difference gameplay wise from KZ2 and KZ3.
Also, What do you mean by "Special"? Maybe we can petition Guerrilla to add that something special in their next game. Once you've defined it.Maths is biased! It keeps telling me the PS4 is 50% more powerful than XboxOne!
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Splinter cell has similar gadgets.
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Thread: Biggest pet peeve when drawing?
February 11th, 2013 #1
Biggest pet peeve when drawing?
I suppose the usual thing would be if the picture doesn't turn out right, or if you can't get down on paper what you have in your imagination. At least those are usual for me. But I have to say, I hate accidentally dropping my kneaded eraser on the ground and then seeing it has hair on it and crap.
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Hide this ad by registering as a memberFebruary 11th, 2013 #2^Definitely. Aslo, when a drawing is going great, but you go to erase something and you accidentally use your crappy eraser and you smudge it... and there is a permanent black smudge that won't erase... and that freak out moment when you realized you just ruined a drawing that you've been working on close to 2 hours...
Last time that happened to me, it was 1am... I was already incredibly tired and frustrated... and I about threw my sketchbook out the window... >_<
February 11th, 2013 #3^ That is why I don't have a kneaded eraser anymore haha. I just cut up an eraser into tiny bits if I want to erase a small part.
I don't have enough drawing experience to have petpeeves though.
Maybe one could be when I finally have time to draw, after grinding through my chemistry/physics homework, and I'm so burnt out all my studies suck due to lack of concentration. That definitely doesn't make me happy.
February 11th, 2013 #4WHEN PRESSING THAT WINDOWS BUTTON INSTEAD OF ALT in Photoshop.
And then accidentely click on "Printers and Devices"
And for some reason it takes ages to load that screen
And then click it away. :V
Maybe I should just change the shortcut for colour picking...
February 11th, 2013 #5Double-clicking an Illustrator file instead of a similarly named Photoshop file, then waiting ten years for Illustrator to launch just so I can quit Illustrator and wait another ten years for Photoshop to launch.
But that's not as annoying as drawing on the wrong layer, and not noticing until you're too far into it to be able to revert.
And THAT'S not as annoying as getting pthalo blue on your hand and then accidentally sticking your hand on the one part of your painting where pthalo blue will wreak the most havoc. (I swear that stuff gets EVERYWHERE if you so much as look at it. You try getting rid of it, and it gets into something else, and before you know it the whole picture has a green tinge.)
February 11th, 2013 #6Clean your damned room and/or buy a new kneaded eraser, they're cheap!
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February 11th, 2013 #7When I draw something and it looks like shit. Its fine though because it only happens when I draw something so I can avoid that by posting in silly threads on Art Discussion
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February 11th, 2013 #8Thinking I'll be tidy painting and get some on the last paint free pair of trousers I have. And how the heck do I get it on my elbows so often?
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February 11th, 2013 #9Barking dogs....Annoying barking dogs. Drives me crazy and totally messes up my work flow.
February 11th, 2013 #10Originally Posted by Black Spot
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February 11th, 2013 #11I have a tarp down in my studio to protect the floor. I gesso hardboard on the tarp, and so over time it's acquired a layer of dried acrylic gesso on it. Apparently, acrylic gesso flakes stick to bare feet, but not as well as to linoleum. So my kitchen floor started getting a buildup of gesso because it would ride my feet into the kitchen, where it would let go and then instantly bond to the lino. It's like some sort of weird parasitic gesso life cycle.
I have since bought a pair of slippers but man -- you discover things while painting that you never would otherwise.
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February 11th, 2013 #12I keep my tablet in my lap, propped up at an angle against the side of the desk. incidentally, my lap is also where my cat wants to be all the time. :| leave me alone you lil shit
February 11th, 2013 #13My biggest "pet peeve" is when you're drawing in your sketchbook, you make a mistake and think to yourself "cmd+alt+z" and actually sit there for 5 mins wondering why it won't delete.
Does this happen to anyone else or am I just going crazy?
February 11th, 2013 #14My only pet peeve I've had that actually bugs me is when I'm drawing with a tablet, and since my computer is shit. If I use any sort of intricate custom brush and use it too fast, even if just trying to lay something down quickly it will lag photoshop and make it unresponsive and freeze. But it's almost a good thing in that it makes you go slow. Use simple brushes and not go overboard with fancy digital shortcuts.
Still is more annoying than anything getting a decent sketch down and poof gone because you didn't save recently.
February 12th, 2013 #15My SketchBook http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=139784
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=192127"Everything must serve the idea. The means used to convey the idea should be the simplest and clear. Just what is required. No extra images. To me this is a universal principle of art. Saying as much as possible with a minimum of means."-John Huston, Director
February 12th, 2013 #16You're not crazy. I've done that. I'll be working on a lot of digital projects, and then go and work on a traditional one, make a mistake and try to find the "undo" command... or I'll try to find the create new layer command.... usually though that stuff happens more often in the late/wee hours of the night/morning when I'm incredibly sleep deprived and I'm on the verge of passing out.
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February 13th, 2013 #18My daler and rowney sketching easel. I can't put my board/ sketchbook high enough on the easel- I swear they make those easels for people under 5ft. Plus it tends to slide about a lot, not great...
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February 13th, 2013 #19Oh, drawing on the wrong layer. That's a huge one, Gwenevere.
I'm slogging through a bunch of Blender tutorials at the moment. Following along, trying to mimic commands in Blender when the video actually has focus. For some reason, all Blender shortcuts seem to do drastic things to videos, like rewind them or close the window.
Oh. Right. Drawing. I like soft pencils with murderously sharp points. That's just one big giant peeve on stilts, that is.
I was once on the receiving end of a critique so savagely nasty, I marched straight out of class to the office and changed my major (sketchbook).
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Sketchbook big enough to be comfortable with, pocket not big enough; and vice versa. I know it's a matter of getting used to either carrying a large notebook or drawing on a tiny space, but I'm still finding my point and I have a stack of half used sketchbooks in my room, damn.
Also, it might not be art related, but I detest drawing to Pink Floyd and my player running out of battery in the middle of a solo. You just don't do that.
February 19th, 2013 #21Being interrupted. Simple and plain, I'm one of the nicest people you can come up talk to, but god help me if I have to choke the next bum asking me if I draw, when they VERY CLEARLY see me with pen-in-hand and pen-on-the-pad trying to concentrate. And my dog constantly bothering me for a rub down when I'm trying to work.
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February 19th, 2013 #22-People watching.
-People who ask what I'm going to paint just as I start, or when I make a rough sketch.
-People suggesting new stuff to add to my paintings or stories I can tell with my paintings when I tell them what I'm painting.
-People who come up with intricate ideas only to say "I wish I could draw like you. Oh hey! I have an idea, why don't you draw it!?"
February 19th, 2013 #23I'm a butthurt artist, enjoy my hating:
- When I have an awesome picture in my head and it won't came up as I imagined it, despite my trying.
- When somebody asks "Did you draw this?!" when he clearly sees that YES, I drawn it right in front of him.
- "Can you draw this? And that? And this thing I like? Have you ever drawn [random nonsense] ? And how about this fuckery? Can you do that?"
- When somebody compliments my art in real life. I feel great when I get positive feedback on Internet, but I just sit and stare to nowhere when it happens in rel life. Fuck my introvert antisocial nature...
- Every pencil I ever tried doesn't look like I want it to look on paper. Either it's lines are too soft and in wrong shade or too narrow, light and it just doesn't feel like my... soulmate pencil.
And my worst nightmare:
- Painting on a wrong layer in Photoshop. I just switched back to Background to fix something and then, mindlessly continue painting some key parts on very same - wrong - layer. And you can't drag it to right layer, because it has a billion details underneath. Paint over again. I could murder when it happens.
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March 15th, 2013 #26Here's my list:
Taking breaks or stopping due to neck pain.
The moment I get out of drawing state of mind.
People interrupting.
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One of mine is when I erase so hard & furious that I either bend/crease the page I'm working or worse rip the page.
The other is usually when I'm doing life drawing. The piece that I've been working over 2 hours on looks like shit & the 10 minute doodle looks so much better.
March 15th, 2013 #28I find my most annoying habit happening when I stop drawing. The longer the period is in which I don't draw, the more delusional I become about my own skills- everything becomes easier, more obvious ("faces are easy!", "yep it's all about colour", "forms- I got it"). And then I pick up the pencil, start a line- and it hits me hard. Every single time.
March 16th, 2013 #29hehe. Just goes to show that you have to create art to fully appreciate the craft of it. It's easy to see what should improve, but it's hard to actually improve. Trial and error I guess.
One of my peeves is dropping your pencil on your drawing (I'm a big butterfingers) so the graphite leaves unwanted marks or forgetting there is paint on your sleeve.
Smudge, smudge, picture is ruined. "Have a nice day" said the sleeve to the picture. "Cab fare is on the table."
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One other thing that's a pet peeve for me, and really shouldn't be because it's a natural part of the art making process - the crumbs that a pink pearl eraser leaves behind after you do any erasing.
I hate them and I really shouldn't.
Doctors heal you, Artists immortalize you.
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I think I read somewhere that all the snowboarding kids are crocheting these days, making their own hats and stuff. Now unless crocheting and knitting don't mix--like how racquetball messes up your tennis game--all you crocheters can probably just look at the handknit robots on Jess Hutchinson's site, count up the number of stitches and stuff, and make your own. As for the rest of you, looks like you need to start sucking up to a knitter somewhere.
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Fantastic tour, with a great coach driver [walter] and a brilliant tour guide.
Great experience for my family. Awe inspiring scenery. Plenty of stops to stretch legs, eat etc. Can't go past the price.
The tour was long but worth it. My driver/tour guide i think was Ryan and he was super nice. You just need to know that it's only about one hour on each view point and then mostly it is traveling in the bus. They do need to update their movie selections on the bus.
It was great and the bus driver / tour guide was excellent ... He went over and above with generosity, information and shared some of his personal tribal history.
A " must-do" tour! A very early start, but the tour was well organised and the bus driver was courteous and well informed and we also listened to pre-recorded information which made the journey go quicker , as did the showing of a video. The helicopter ride over the canyon was awesome - the beauty and size of the canyon needs to be seen to be believed. The bus driver took us to two vantage points where we were able to enjoy more time marvelling at the incredible scenery. The tour included a packed lunch which was filling but we also stopped at McDonald's en route and on return. However, be warned - there were several coaches which arrived at the same time which led to a very slow service and little or no time to consume food purchased - although we were able to eat the food on the coach. This is an excellent value for money excursion to see the Grand Canyon and the collection and return to the hotel was very efficient and on time. I would thoroughly recommend this trip.
Everything was great. The tour guide/driver was very friendly and knowledgeable all throughout the journey. There were plenty of stops throughout the drive to and from the destination to break up the drive. I would highly recommend this trip.
The grand canyon was so amazing and the tour bus driver was very entertaining and informative
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Although the trip from Las Vegas to the Canyon was long, it was worth the ride. Our guide, Walter, was informative and well as entertaining. We opted for the helicopter upgrade and got a breathtaking view of the Canyon. I would recommend this trip to others.
It started and ended as a most beautiful day with bright skies and gorgeous scenery all along the way. It's so much more enjoyable to let someone else do the driving. We did the IMAX add on and it was very worthwhile. You would have to see it in person to understand why it's one of the seven wonders of the world. Our driver was excellent. The number of stops was adequate and everyone on the bus was pleased. You could tell by the atmosphere. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone.
We really enjoyed this trip. Yes, it was a very long day, but well organized and worth the trip.
THere was fourof us and we were in awe of the Grand Canyon. ALL arrangements went very smooth.It was a long trip but well wor th it.
Highlights of this tour - aside from the spectacular Grand Canyon itself (which is well worth the journey time) include Walter our driver. He was wonderful; informative, a skilled driver, entertaining, thoughtful, managing with humour, to organise a coach full of tourists. Fight to get on his coach!
Don't be put off by the travel time - because of the thought that's been put into the journey and Walter's personality it didn't feel arduous, we had opportunity to sleep, a video, information about the places we were visiting and Walter's wonderful rapport. It made for a very special day. Personally I wouldn't take the optional extras - you can visit an Imax anytime to see the Grand Canyon film (or buy the DVD) and if you want to splurge on a helicopter extra do it the next day as a solo trip to the Canyon's West Rim - that way you'll have a good 3 hours (3 x 1 hour - in different places) to walk and enjoy the Canyon enfoot whilst you're on this coach tour and get as close to nature in the Grand Canyon visit that a 1 day taster can possibly give you.
This is one of the lifetime experience. I will recommend it to friends.
The tour was amazing, the guide was very informative!!
Upgraded to the jeep tour. Although a long day, thoroughly enjoyed our time at the grand canon
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This wasn't about exercise or pre-game nerves at 4:45 a.m. shared by a coach and his freshman cornerback. This was the sort of walk Cubit dreads, after the sort of wake-up call he fears and the sort of conversation that reminds him his job is so much more than X's and O's.
Buxton's 21-year-old brother, Paul, was shot and killed around 2:30 a.m. Saturday outside a nightclub in Pahokee, Fla.
The phone in Cubit's hotel room at the Radisson Plaza Hotel & Suites — where the Broncos stay nights before home games — rang several times around 3 a.m. Saturday.
Buxton's mother and sisters, visiting from Florida for the game, were waiting in the lobby.
Less than eight hours later, Buxton was on the field, starting at one corner, playing in front his grief-stricken family.
Buxton will head home this Thursday to bury his brother on Saturday, a short trip at the request of Buxton's mother, who, Cubit said, wants her son in class all week and back in Kalamazoo as fast as possible.
"It was one of those, 'Coach, just make sure you take care of my boy,'" Cubit said of his most recent conversation with Pamela Eady.
Buxton's absence this Saturday, from a football perspective, for what it's worth, is another hit to a defense thinning by the week.
The Broncos will have only three actual cornerbacks available against Kent State — redshirt freshmen Lewis Toler and Tronic Williams and true freshman Maurice Roberts (who's recovering from a bruised knee) — forcing junior Dervon Wallace to move from receiver to corner for at least this Saturday.
Cubit said he won't burn the redshirts of Jon Henry or Garrett Smith.
"You try to get them to get down to basics," Toler said of tutoring Roberts and Wallace. "Have them get their footwork down and try to bring them along with you and tell them to come watch film with you, so when it comes to play on Saturday, they'll be familiar with the things Kent State does."WMU isn't just woefully short at corner. Sophomore linebacker Chris Prom suffered a sprained MCL in his left knee Saturday and is out for the season, joining freshman linebacker Desmond Bozeman, who was slated for knee surgery Monday. Sophomore linebacker Dex Jones' status remains uncertain after, Cubit said, Jones failed to "take care of some (off-field) business" last week.
Senior rover Jamail Berry is expected to see time at linebacker again, with junior safety Doug Wiggins playing rover.
"Hopefully whatever position the coaches put the players, we can fill the void and play defense," Berry said. "They're two games left, possibly three, just go out there and play.
"Just put me somewhere and I'll give you everything I've got. It doesn't even matter."
It's hard to say otherwise considering last weekend.
"This university did a pretty good job," said Cubit, who turned to athletics director Kathy Beauregard for advice on when to tell the rest of the WMU football team.
"Part of you says, 'Do you tell the team before a game like that?'" Cubit said. "She said, 'If we're going to preach family, those are his brothers in there he's playing with.'"
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The Elizabeth City Fire Department suspended its second-in-command Tuesday, following his arrest on an assault charge.
The Elizabeth City Fire Department suspended its second-in-command Tuesday, following his arrest on an assault charge.
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Firefighters responded to the 600 block of Denbigh Boulevard around 9:30 a.m. Dec. 10.
The alleged Eastern Shore arsonist was supposed to head to court Dec. 15 in Va. Beach but now will wait until April.
The victim told police the suspect approached him and demanded the money he had gotten in the David Student Union.
A man charged in a Virginia Beach crash that killed a mother and daughter last year has pleaded guilty.
The victim reported her wallet stolen Nov. 20 at a grocery store on Taylor Road in Chesapeake.
Newport News police say a 20-year-old man was shot in knee while sleeping in his friend's car.
The senior defensive end at Oscar Smith High School announced Wednesday he will be playing for the Seminoles.
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Republican Todd Pillion has won a special election to fill a southwest Virginia seat in theHouse of Delegates.
Virginia has been awarded a $17.5 million federal grant to expand preschool programs.
Virginia's Department of Veterans Services will be holding a workforce recruiting event in Hampton on Dec. 11.
The City of Norfolk received $1,548,476 in grant money to fund storm water pollution projects.
AAA Mid-Atlantic says Virginia gas prices have fallen more than $1 since the April 2014 spring peak of $3.52 per gallon.
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Common sense
- This article is about the subject in general; Common Sense is also the title of a pamphlet by Thomas Paine.
Among philosophers, the issue of what common sense is is vexing; this leads many of them to shun the word altogether. Whatever it does mean, it does not mean homespun (and sometimes dubious) truths such as "Chicken soup is good for colds." Nonetheless, common sense is a perennial topic in epistemology and widely used or referred to, in one form or another, by very many philosophers. Some related concepts include intuitionss, pre-theoretic belief, ordinary language, foundational beliefs, endoxa, and axioms.
Commonsense ideas tend to relate to events within human experience, and thus commensurate with human scale. Thus there is no commonsense intuition of, for example, the behavior of the universe at subatomic distances or speeds approaching the speed of light.
The Cyc project is an attempt to provide a basis of commonsense knowledge for artificial intelligence systems. The Open Mind Common Sense project is similar except, like Wikipedia, was built from the contributions of thousands of individuals across the Web.
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The first meaning is proposed by John Locke in his Human Understanding. Each of the senses gives input, and then these must be integrated into a single impression. This is the common sense, the sense of things in common between disparate impressions. It is therefore allied with "fancy," and it is opposed to "judgment," or the capacity to divide like things into separates. Each of the empiricist philosophers approach the problem of the unification of sense data in his or her own way, giving various names to the operation. However, all believe that there is a sense in the human understanding that sees commonality and does the combining. This is the "common sense."
Two philosophers are most famous for advocating the other meaning of "common sense," the view (to state it imprecisely) that common sense beliefs are true and form a foundation for philosophical inquiry: Thomas Reid, G. E. Moore.
The Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid, a contemporary of Hume and the founder of the so-called Scottish School of Common Sense, devotes considerable space in his Inquiry and the Intellectual Powers developing a theory of common sense. While he never gives a definition, per se, he does offer a number of so-called "earmarks" of common sense (which he sometimes calls "principles of common sense"), such as:
The British philosopher G. E. Moore, who did important work in epistemology, ethics, and other fields near the beginning of the twentieth century, is famous for a programmatic essay, "A Defence of Common Sense." This essay had a profound effect on the methodology of much twentieth-century Anglo-American philosophy. In this essay, Moore lists several seemingly very obvious truths, such as "There exists at this time a living human body which is my body," "My body has existed continuously on or near the earth, at various distances from or in contact with other existing things, including other living human beings," and many other such platitudes. He argues (as Reid did before him) that these propositions are much more obviously true than the premises of many philosophical claims which entail their falsehood (such as the claim that time does not exist, a claim of A. N. Whitehead's).
Both Reid and Moore, individually, are famous for appealing to common sense to refute skepticism.
Appeal to common sense is characteristic of a general epistemological orientation called epistemological particularism (the appelation comes from Roderick Chisholm), which orientation is contrasted with epistemological methodism. The particularist gathers a list of propositions that seem obvious and unassailable and then requires consistency with this set of propositions as a condition of adequacy for any abstract philosophical theory. (An entry on the list, however, may be eventually rejected for inconsistency with other, seemingly more secure, entries.) Methodists, on the other hand, begin with a theory of cognition or justification and then apply it to see which of our pre-theoretical beliefs survive. Reid and Moore are paradigmatic particularists, while Descartes and Hume are paradigmatic methodists. Methodist methodology tends to toward skepticism, as the rules for acceptable or rational belief tend to be very restrictive (for instance, being incapable of doubt for Descartes, or being constructible entirely from impressions and ideas for Hume). Particularist methodology, on the other hand, tends toward a kind of conservatism, granting perhaps an undue privilege to beliefs we happen to be confident about.
An interesting question is whether the methodologies can be mixed. For instance, it seems impossible to do logic, metaphysics and epistemology without beginning with some assumptions of common sense. However, particularism applied to ethics and politics often seems simply to entrench prejudice and other contingent products of social inculcation. Is there a way to provide a principled distinction between areas of inquiry where reliance on the dictates of common sense is legitimate (because necessary) and areas where it is illegitimate because it is an obstruction to intellectual and practical progress?
The topic of common sense raises interesting and important questions in a field closely related to epistemology and philosophy of language called "meta-philosophy." Various questions might be raised in a meta-philosophical discussion of common sense: what is common sense? Supposing that a precise characterization of it cannot be given, does that mean appeal to common sense is off-limits in philosophy? Why should we care whether a belief is a matter of common sense or not? Under what circumstances, if any, is it permissible to advocate a view that seems to run contrary to common sense? Should considerations of common sense play any decisive role in philosophy? If not common sense, then should any other similar concept such as 'intuition' play such a role? In general, are there "philosophical starting points," and if so, how might we characterize them? Supposing that there are no beliefs we are willing to hold come what may, are there some we ought to hold more stubbornly at least?
Common sense is sometimes regarded as an impediment to abstract and even logical thinking. This is especially the case in mathematics and physics, where human intuition often conflicts with provably correct or experimentally verified results. A definition attributed to Albert Einstein states: "common sense
is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
Common sense is sometimes appealed to in political debates, particularly when other arguments have been exhausted. Civil rights for African Americans, women's suffrage, and homosexuality--to name just a few--have all been attacked as being contrary to common sense. Similarly, common sense has been invoked in opposition to many scientific and technological advancements. Such misuse of the notion of common sense is fallacious, being a form of the argumentum ad populum (appeal to the masses) fallacy.Philosophy and common sense
There are two general meanings to the term "common sense" in philosophy. One is a sense that is common to the others, and the other meaning is a sense of things that is common to humanity.
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Amritsar Bassi Pathana Batala Hoshiarpur Car snatched: Four unidentified persons snatched a safari car (No MH-19-AP-2090) from Pardeep Kumar, a resident of Mohalla Kamalpur, at Bhangala here on Tuesday. Jalandhar Nawanshahr Peddler held: The police arrested Surjit Ram of Langroya village at Ramraipur link road with 22 kg poppy husk on Wednesday. A case under Sections 15, 61 and 85 of the NDPS Act was registered against him. Nakodar In-laws arrested: The police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested three members of the in-laws family of Rajwinder Kaur, resident of Kotla Bhaggu village, near here, who had committed suicide due to torture by her in-laws for dowry in February this year. The arrested persons are Sarban Singh, father-in-law, Santosh Rani, mother-in-law, and Nirmal Singh, husband, of the deceased. Phagwara |
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